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Breviary
France, possibly Toulouse, ca. 1490
M.463 fol. 248v

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Personification: Death -- Woman, wearing veil, with joined hands raised, stands before personification of death (skeleton), with right hand extended and arrow in raised right hand. Figures in front of building.
Margin is decorated with floreate border, including daisies. In left margin is seated musician, playing bagpipe.



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